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Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral rites and ceremonies Railroad trains Railroads
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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al RR for$3,000. Stripped of interior compart-ments, it worked as a simple day coachwith long wooden benches runningalong the still upholstered walls. Down-graded to a lowly work car and nearly derelict, the car returned to the UnionPacific in the early 1890s. Finally the UP sold the car to entre-preneur Franklyn Snow for $2,000. Hisefforts to use the car as a commercialexhibit in the Midwest met limited suc-cess, so he sold the car to former SooLine president Thomas Lowry. Lowry restored the Lincoln funeralcar and promoted it as the most sacredrelic in the United States until a grassfire in 1911 destroyed ten residentialblocks in the Minnesota communitywhere the car was stored. Few pieces ofthe car remain today. Designed for elegance yet never usedby its intended rider in life; made a rail-road executives private car, then usedby track workers; crafted of the finestmaterials, yet burned in a grass fire,the United States holds a fascinatingplace in railroad history. 0 96 FEBRUARY 1995
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* V -*v-t^--- -V nf* ft -n About the Lincoln Train project Dnder the auspices of Illinois Benedictine College, Wayne Wesolowski andhis son Steve are completing a 1 scale model of the funeral train. Over14 feet long, it will include the locomotive Nashville, the presidential carUnited States, and a model honor guard lifting the presidents coffin fromthe train and into the ornate hearse used in the funeral. Traveling with theexhibit will be copies of photos, letters, artifacts, and the story of the mak-ing of the Lincoln Train. The exhibit, now four years in preparation, will begin traveling in Illinoisin February 1995. Additional projects will include a short educational videotape and a monograph. Benefactors: Robert R. McCormick (Chicago Tribune) FoundationAmerican Funeral Service Museum, Houston, Texas Donors: Kalmbach Publishing Co. James S. Copley Foundation Lincoln National Corporation, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Santa Fe Southern Foundation State Farm Mutual Insurance Co., Bloomington, III.

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